if assad and if putin are going to be bad players here. the way this is set up at this point in time, i think there's enough international pressure on putin and on the russians to make a good-faith effort to make sure assad turns over as many of his weapons as a normal dictator would under these particular circumstances. but it is still ultimately a very, very complicated piece here. and a lot of folks are saying if jean and rand paul agree and we don't want to make this isolation, i don't think that's the case. i'm also anti military intervention in syria. it doesn't mean we're isolationists at all. what it means is, we think it's a bad idea to make a military intervention into this particular civil war at this particular time. >> gene, speaking of headlines, take a look at politico's today. left revokes president obama's liberal card in addition to leading a charge against -- leading a charge against syria, they write, that came on top of the fears that the president will, for all the current tough rhetoric, again go into the fall politi